Free range eggs for less

Poppy9

Kirri wrote: »

Was going to say the same, not sure why people get annoyed with people saying how it is.. nothing changes until more people realise what goes on.

I wasn't annoyed with him saying about free range chickens, I said he as a person was annoying!

A._Badger wrote: »

He may have been annoying but he may also have been right. There have been quite a few cases of fraud in the free range and organic egg trade and, in any case, some interpretations of what 'free range' means might surprise a lot of consumers..

Oh he was just an annoying person full stop. No matter what the topic of conversation in work, he was the expert. Didn't like him as a person so didn't buy his eggs, neither did anyone else in the room!

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I've had the 6 free range for 97p eggs from Morrisons and they were actually marked '0' for organic.

cloven

Aldi also have sub £1 medium free range eggs

katharinee

Iceland have half a dozen free range eggs for £1!

Celia

If an egg is organic and free range - how does that get coded. Is it just 0 or 01?

Thanks

HappyMJ

Celia wrote: »

If an egg is organic and free range - how does that get coded. Is it just 0 or 01?

Thanks

Organic still mean the hens are not raised in cages and have access to the outdoors. How much acess is debateable but they aren't raised in cages.

Celia

Thanks for this info - saved my first pennies in Mr T's last night by buying a box of 0 labelled caged hen eggs...

I guess its not a trades description thing if they are giving you a superior product but no doubt someone will come along and dispute that free range/ organic is superior...

browneyedbazzi

Celia wrote: »

Thanks for this info - saved my first pennies in Mr T's last night by buying a box of 0 labelled caged hen eggs...

I guess its not a trades description thing if they are giving you a superior product but no doubt someone will come along and dispute that free range/ organic is superior...

There have been blind taste-tests shown on TV multiple times where chefs were unable to tell the difference between caged/free range/organic eggs. Analysis of the nutritional value of the different types of eggs also hasn't shown any significant difference on the programmes I have seen.

The 'superiority' of free range/organic is down to the animal welfare and environmental impact (so you feel better about buying/eating them) rather than the physical qualities of the egg.

Battleaxe44

We feed our chickens with corn, they scratch around in the yard and at the . moment the girls are giving us double yokers. They love the vegetable peelings, to play around with and of course plenty of green grass for them lay in. they go in out of their little house. it has gotten to a symbyotic realtionship with the cats, The cats have found the nests to sleep in, so the hens lay their eggs under the bushes. The cats occasionally help themselves to fresh eggs..

Thank you egg farmer for the tip.

Nick_C

I always buy Clarence Court eggs. They are horrendously expensive (£2 for 6) but they look so good. The yolks are almost orange. I tried "regular" M&S free range eggs recently and they just didn't look the same.

Its a luxury, but when eating eggs and chickens I really want them (the chickens) to have had a good quality of life.